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Mersey Docks and Harbour Board (United Kingdom)

Liverpool

image by Martin Grieve, 6 March 2010

Mersey Docks and Harbour Board flag
Mersey Docks and Harbour Board flags from Flaggenbuch (1939)
Earlier flag

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Mersey Docks and Harbour Board

On page 80 of Graham Bartram's book, British Flags and Emblems, the flag of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company Ensign is depicted. Despite the fact that the Company underwent a name shuffle from "Mersey Docks and Harbour Board" to its present title, the lettering on the fly of the British blue ensign remained unaltered, this being MHDB. The wreath was changed though and (in my humble opinion) improved graphically. The whole defacement is most certainly in white, and not gold as some authorities have stated. The red ensign variant is now, presumably, defunct.
Martin Grieve, 6 March 2010

Mersey Docks and Harbour Board flags from Flaggenbuch (1939)

image by Martin Grieve, 7 March 2010

Detail of Badge

image by Martin Grieve, 7 March 2010

These images are based on the 1992 re-print of the Flaggenbuch (1939). Bruce Berry recently purchased an original MDHB red ensign and we can both confirm that Flaggenbuch has the illustration spot-on.
Martin Grieve, 7 March 2010

Earlier flag

located by Jan Mertens

Source: Port Cities

On the Port Cities web site (search for "Flag") are also many proposals for a Mersey Docks and Harbour Board house flag. The flag is from the Merseyside Maritime Museum. This flag is the only reported as "Flag of..." as opposed to "Suggested design..."
Jan Mertens, 11 February 2005

Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the same (red) flag (#1393, p. 103), "for dredgers".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#68
Ivan Sache, 30 April 2021